The story of the fiercely independent lesbian activist Marie Equi has come to YouTube. Earlier this month I was interviewed by David Perry, program host of Ten Percent on Comcast TV Channel 104 serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Perry’s broadcasts feature the diversity of the Bay Area’s rich LGBTQ community and document its history.

This nine-minute interview recounts Equi’s early adult days on a homestead, her defense of a girlfriend with a horsewhipping in the center of a small Oregon town, and her heroic relief work following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Only so much can be covered in nine minutes, but I mentioned as well Equi’s fight for voting rights, economic justice, and free speech.